San Francisco County Biographies
DR. C. S. HALEY
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker
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A leading physician and one of the most prominent educators,
not only on the Pacific coast, but equally well known among practical educators
in Eastern States, is a son of New England.
He was born in York county, Maine, October 23, 1832. His parents were natives
of New England, his father, John M. Haley, being a well-known physician. Dr.
Haley attended school and received his early education in Maine, and his
collegiate course in Georgia and New York. He engaged in teaching in the public
schools when only seventeen years of age. He went South and taught in Georgia
when it required the courage of one�s convictions for a Yankee to engage in that
profession in the Southern States, and remained there four years.
The Doctor was a self-made man, as his parents could ill afford to pay his
collegiate course; therefore, when he determined to take up the study of
medicine, he carefully nursed his funds, laying aside his earnings from teaching
till he had saved a sufficient sum to carry him through college, when he entered
the Augusta Medical College of Georgia, in the year 1854; and in the following
year he pursued his studies at the Atlanta Medical College, from which
institution he received his diploma.
Determined to avail himself of every opportunity of gaining a thorough knowledge
of his chosen profession, he went to New York city, taking a third course in the
University Medical College, where, having daily access to the hospitals of this
large city, he had a chance of studying diseases in every form, which proved a
great benefit to him in his after career.
After practicing medicine in Georgia for a year or two, he returned North, and
for ten years successfully practiced his profession in Middlesex county, New
Jersey. While there he was actively identified with educational interests; was
elected Superintendent of Public Schools, the law there requiring the
superintendent to examine teachers and grant certificates. He also took an
active part in the city, county and State conventions.
Dr. Haley came to the Pacific coast in 1865, and engaged in the practice of
medicine, being successfully and prominently identified with the profession in
San Francisco and other portions of the State for fifteen years.
In 1881 the Doctor was induced to identify himself with Heald�s Business
College, and since that time has been the active head of its noted commercial
school, and one of its proprietors; and under his successful management it has
attained its present high standard. During the 1889 Dr. Haley took a
well-earned vacation. In April of that year he and his estimable wife started
on a tour around the world, visiting England, France, Germany, Austria, India,
Ceylon Island, China and Japan, giving much time and attention in observing the
educational methods in all the countries visited; and in not one of them did he
find a strictly commercial college. He returned much benefited by his tour, and
is giving his co-educators the benefit of what he has observed and acquired, his
lectures being full of interest and instruction. He is also contributor to
magazines and educational journals. Dr. Haley is very genial, always
approachable and is justly popular with the students of the institution of which
he is the head.
Besides the college, he is largely identified in developing the farming
interests of his adopted State, owning two raisin vineyards in Fresno county,
also interested in stock-raising in Tulare county, where blooded horses, both
for speed and draft, are produced for the market. While he holds landed
interests in other portions of the State, San Joaquin valley is his favorite
section, where in the main he is directing his energies, having great confidence
in the future of this far-famed valley.
Source: "The Bay of San Francisco," Vol. 2, pages 100-101, Lewis Publishing Co,
1892.